Thursday, May 6, 2010

Honeysuckle Time

Toddler ages: 26 months, 26 months, 3.5 years

Materials you'll need:
-a honeysuckle vine

I wish you could smell this...

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My mother's entryway is covered with vines of honeysuckle and the 8-year-old girl and I thought it would be fun to teach the twins how to such the honey off the stamens (is that what they're called?).

First, we showed them the plucked honeysuckle...

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Then we showed them how to pull out the stamen with the drop of honey...

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...and suck off the drop of honey...

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Twin B never could quite figure out how to tenderly suck off the honey. He just tried to obliterate the flowers from the stems...

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....and expectantly waited for us to give him more...

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Sucking honeysuckles is great, but be careful, because all that close contact with pollen can make your nose itch...

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Hope your toddlers love this, too!

5 comments:

  1. Hmmm, honeysuckle is divine, unfortunately I don't have a garden.

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  2. I loved those honey suckles. I miss them

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  3. Yummy! I grew up with a vine near my house. Miss it!

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  4. Holy cow! Our WHOLE BACK FENCE is covered with honeysuckle vine! You could come here and have a ball with it!

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  5. The expectant picture is just too beautiful! That was a fun trip down memory lane - remember the three of us doing exactly the same thing at Grandma Mittie's?

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